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Sarah May wrote a new post CfP: “What Lies Beneath”, The Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (SASMARS) Conference 2024 in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 1 day agoSASMARS has a Call for Papers for its conference, to be held 1-4 August 2024.
Proposals should consist of
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Sarah May wrote a new post Seminar Talk: Aydogan KARS, “Prophetic Medicine and Sufi Piety in Medieval Islam” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 month agoThe Sufi Studies Network, organised by Dr Milad Milani (Western Sydney University) and Dr Aydogan Kars (Monash University) will present their last talk on 3 November.
Our very own team member Aydogan will be […]
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Sarah May wrote a new post October 2023 // Upcoming Seminar. Guy Geltner, “Towards an Environmental History of Mining in Preindustrial Europe” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks agoGuy Geltner, CI for our international research project “Pursuing Public Health in the Preindustrial World”, will present at Ghent University his presentation focusing on preindustrial mining and environmental […]
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Sarah May edited the post September 2023/ Upcoming Seminar. Guy Geltner, “The Nature of Preindustrial Mining: Environmental Perspectives and Knowledge Creation” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoNext week Wednesday 13 September, Guy Geltner will present at Melbourne University as part of its HSP (History of Philosophy and Science) Seminar Series.
OVERVIEW
When: 12.00(Melbourne local time), 13 […]
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Sarah May edited the post August 2023/ Upcoming Seminar: “The Nature of Extraction in Preindustrial Europe” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoThis week, Guy Geltner will present at Monash University, “The Nature of Extraction in Preindustrial Europe”, highlighting his research on miners in preindustrial Europe.
OVERVIEW (More details here) […]
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Sarah May edited the post Photo Gallery: Rocca San Silvestro, summer 2023 in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoWe have released a photo gallery of 2023 summer fieldwork in Rocca San Silvestro, to be found in Media > Photo Gallery. A description follows, written by anthropologist and team member Serena Viva, who worked on […]
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Sarah May edited the post Call for contributions: Bibliography update: “The History of Public Health in Pre-Industrial Societies” in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoAs part of our years-long research track spanning two key research projects on premodern/ preindustrial health (About Us), we provide a bibliography of “The History of Public Health in Pre-Industrial Societies”. […]
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Sarah May edited the post We are moving to Mastodon in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 4 weeks agoWe have set up a Mastodon account and aim to transition slowly into this federated, non-profit platform. Mastodon focuses on users’ privacy and collective governance.
Our platform is on the Humanities Commons […]
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Sarah May edited the post Symposium: Medieval Bodies: New Projects, New Perspectives in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 4 months agoOrganised by Professor Megan Cassidy-Welch (Australian Catholic University) this symposium explores the ‘medieval body’ as a site of critical inquiry, through three ongoing research projects of disparate focuses: […]
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Sarah May wrote a new post Workshop: Workers’ Health and Material Environment in Port Cities (1300-1700) in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week agoWorkshop: Workers’ Health and Material Environment in Port Cities (1300-1700)
Organised by Dr. C.V. Weeda (Leiden University) and Marie-Louise Leonard (University Ca’ Foscari Venezia), this workshop includes thr […] -
Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group
Premodern Healthscaping on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week agoIn this paper, I argue that Hygieia has to be viewed as a full goddess in Greek religion and medicine, with a special focus on her position within the Asklepios cult. I will examine her identity, to which scholars attribute several labels like goddess, abstraction and personification. I further argue that Hygieia’s role in performing incubation r…[Read more]
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Sarah May edited the post New project: Mining Activities, Public Health Strategies and Pollution Legacies in Europe, 1200-1600 in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 8 months, 2 weeks agoWe are excited to announce we have received funding from Monash Arts Faculty for a Health and Medical Research Accelerator project on preindustrial public health.
This research project builds on the work done […]
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Sarah May edited the post Lecture: Supplying the slave trade in 10th-century Prague in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks agoLola Digard, member of our previous research project, Healthscaping Premodern Europe, will be in discussion with Jane Fontaine tomorrow. Dr Fontaine’s lecture focuses on the role of the Prague market in the trade […]
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Sarah May wrote a new post Medieval Round Table: The Nature of Extraction in Preindustrial Europe in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week agoGuy Geltner will be presenting at The University of Melbourne’s Medieval Round Table discussion group on 6 February 2023. The Round Table is an informal forum that meets monthly, usually on the first Monday of the […]
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Sarah May edited the post Virtual Book Launch: Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 11 months ago13 January 2023, 12pm EST/ 6pm CET/ 10.30pm IST/ 4am + 1 AEDT
Online, zoom
Begin the new year with a virtual book launch for the fourth title in the “Health and Healing in the Middle Ages” series by publishers […] -
Sarah May edited the post Public Film Screening, Deakin University in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoDeakin Burwood Corporate Centre will hold their final CES stream event for the year: Unbounded Bodies, Dynamic Places: Biopolitics in the Preindustrial World, with Professor Guy Geltner on Tuesday 6 December […]
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Peyman Amiri wrote a new post New Article: Public Works, Spatial Strategies, and Mobility in Late Medieval Ghent in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoCoomans, J., & Hermenault, L. (2022). Public Works, Spatial Strategies, and Mobility in Late Medieval Ghent. Journal of Urban History
This article argues that medieval urban authorities developed nodal spatial […] -
Peyman Amiri wrote a new post New Publication – The healthscaping approach: Toward a global history of early public health in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoGeltner, G. and Janna Coomans. “The Healthscaping Approach: Toward a Global History of Early Public Health.” Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History.
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Peyman Amiri edited the post Dynamic Balances: Public Health in the Premodern World in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoThe ERC project Premodern Healthscaping hosted its final conference ‘Dynamic Balances: Public Health in the Premodern World’ at the University of Amsterdam on 29-30 September. During this two-day conference, the […]
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Peyman Amiri edited the post La vita urbana e le pratiche igieniche medievali a Bologna e in altre città in the group
Premodern Healthscaping: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago26 September 2022, 09:00-18:00
Università di Bologna (Aula 3, via Azzo Gardino 33 complesso Unione)
This conference explores the connections between population, health, and the urban environment in northern […] - Load More
